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Whataburger on the Northshore
Never been a Whataburger there. Whataburger is a Texas thing, if I'm not mistaken. They go nuts for them here (Dallas, now) but I personally don't get it.
If I remember correctly for a while there was a Backyard Burger, maybe that was it? If not there's Rally's, a McD, Burger King, etc and a few other places right off 190 coming to mind quick.
Dining during Mardi Gras (and the days leading up to it)
And don't pee in public. Seemingly the only thing that'll get you arrested during MG.
Dining during Mardi Gras (and the days leading up to it)
Totally agree with hazelhurst. I lived there all my life and it can still be a challenge to navigate from down to uptown during a day parade. Get the parade schedule and maps and carry it around like your life depends on it (if you don't know the streets well)
If you're in nola now (sounds like it) just go eat at all your spots you want now and plan to be flexible as the parades start up. Tourists overrunning the city can make it hell to even go eat at a chain restaurant, especially the week before Mardi Gras.
This is my favorite, but definitely the most stressful time of year to be in our fair city. Get some easy to carry around foods and drinks and hit up the parades and enjoy them every night (and day, during day parades) but I'd head uptown if I were you to do so. You'll have a blast.
Superior Grill?
Maybe it's just me but I love Superior. VERY strong decent margaritas, as others have said. The food is eh...generic mexican food, but the drinks are great and it's always got a fun crowd there.
What makes a great Roast Beef po-boy?
Absolutely. I meant a roast beef sandwich with a side of brothlike au jus. That's just not a poboy and I've never seen a place do them like that here.
What makes a great Roast Beef po-boy?
Type of bread, gravy vs juice? Sorry, but in all my years, these types of questions are never (with few exceptions) asked of a roast beef poboy in New Orleans.
There's only french bread for the bread. (I know a few places still use seeded loafs, which is fine in my book, but french bread is the gold standard) I personally like mine VERY lightly toasted and brushed with butter. Juice, do you mean au jus? Like a french dip?? I've never seen a roast beef without a thick debris gravy. Personal preference will come for how broken down do you like the meat. Some like it almost indistinguishable from the gravy, I prefer mine with good recognizably large pieces of meat in tact. The few places that slice the meat then dump gravy on top, not my thing. My favorites slice their meat and dump it back in the gravy pot. I like my poboys dressed, but for roast beef, I eat it like my mama- just a ton of mayo and nothing else. It should make a hell of a mess if its a good one!
SAINTS -FALCONS GAME MONDAY
I know this passed already but- all the local Who Dat's I know go to the Quarter Bar but NOT the breadwinners one- the one in Addison (totally different places) It's very much a Saints fan only place come game time and they have a big deal every week with the games and contests and such for fans. Lots of New Orleaneans in Dallas now go there. Watched them win the Superbowl there and proceeded to watch the entire bar burst into tears and second line for over an hour. It was a blast!
BLTs
My pick (not to mention what got me to like BLTs in the first place- I loathe raw tomato before theirs!) is AllGood Cafe in Deep Ellum. It's cheap and loaded with bacon. They do always ask if you want avocado but I say no. I believe they've won local awards for best blt too.
Where is the best chicken shawarma in Dallas?
I came from up in Detroit where schwarmas are sold everywhere due to the high middle eastern population and I was nuts for them- and have yet to been able to find THAT schwarma here. In Detroit, its always chunks of grilled chicken, a ton of garlic spread, lettuce and pickle spears wrapped up. That's is. All the places I've tried around here make it differently, so I've just about given up finding what I've always had as a schwarma.
Biscuits 'n Gravy
Yuck! I went to Barbec's on a ton of great biscuit and gravy recommendations and it was awful! I barely could finish it. I like to think I know a good biscuit and gravy and theirs, well, the sweet biscuits were not intended for white gravy (good alone though!) but the gravy is instant, if you get the sausage kind, I've never tried sausage with zero saltiness or flavor before but somehow theirs is like that. I ended up dousing the bowl of gravy with enough salt and pepper to make a doctor faint and it still had barely any flavor! Id skip Barbecs.
Restaurants in Baton Rouge
Not up there often but when we are, we always go to Superior Grill (even though there's the other one on St. Charles, this one just seems better)
Seeking kitchy fun restaurant for locals
expatorleanean, why ask why? Just cause you're local doesn't mean you always need or want the best food available. Sometimes, you want a good experience, food aside. I totally get it.
My first thought, with my parents living in Mandeville, is Trey Yeun. As a kid I called it China Disney World (very elavorately decorated to the nines, koi ponds outside, flaming appetizers and big "old time" chinese restaurant drinks. BUT...its on the northshore,
In town, my favorite for a more fun dinner is honestly Margaritaville down in the quarter. Each Margaritaville, I found out, has some set stuff on the menu, but is open to do their own food (the nola one has a surprisingly good bbq shrimp, for example) so its not quite as over the top touristy, chainy as youd think. I love going there when I'm home! Plus, the fun drink menu is longer than the real menu and there's always bands playing and a tire swing bar upstairs. My family will go down there, drink a little too much, and have a blast!
What to eat at Arnaud's and Antoine's if you don't eat fish
The steaks at Antoine's are fantastic, especially if you get some of the sauces they make to put on top. My husband loves the Chateaubriand but if I recall they advise it be ordered for 2 people since its quite large a portion.
What to bring back from New Orleans
I'll second tasso.
Mine whenever I go home is almost always a few baggies of Brocato's cookies from any of our grocery stores (If I had time to make it down to the shop and get them fresh, even better.)
Weird Paul Prudhomme's Magic flavors (in Texas I can get a few basic ones, but not the newer unique ones) I'm usually driving, so I can look for good Abita beers out then. And If I come across it, roman candy. I find tons of seafood shops around my parents sell it by the stick from the Roman Candy Man.
What's the best thing you've ever received trick-or-treating?
My most memorable was an old man in our neighborhood who worked for Barq's root beer. Every year he gave each kid a can of root beer, a small bag of Zapp's potato chips with halloween decorations on them and as many sheets of these amazing temporary Barq's tattoos as he could stuff in your bag! We looked forward to his house every year and those tattoos stayed on so long, it would be Christmas and my mom would still be finding lips and spiders all over my brother!
PJ's Buttercream Brownies
Oh man Crepe Suzette, if you only knew how I've searched for the same recipe!
To my knowledge, last I saw one was probably around 2006 or 2007. Once I asked and the girl behind the counter said they just came in a box from somewhere else....
I loathe cream cheese and can go with some certainty that there is NOT cream cheese in these guys. The taste was always distinctly buttercream only to me. I've tried swirling buttercream with added flour in brownies and it gets sort of there but needs more body (maybe its *some* cream cheese just not enough to get that noticeable tang?)
Many people have had recipes for cream cheese swirled brownies but none I've seen for a more buttercream version.
Looking for King Arthur cake flour in bulk
According to the King Arthur site, here are places in Texas that sell bulk King Arthur flours wholesale. Should be able to get whatever you need there!
Bakemark-Dallas, Grand Prairie, TX, 800-777-7842
Ben E. Keith Foods, Fort Worth, TX, 817-759-6000
Dawn Food Products, Dallas, TX, 800-442-9713
Dawn Food Products, Houston, TX, 800-252-3296
Euromid, LTD, Houston, TX, 800-494-0161
Johnson Brothers Bakery Supply, Inc., San Antonio, TX, 800-590-2575
Rohtstein, Corp., Woburn, MA, 800-225-1661
Sysco of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 505-761-1200
beer-batter fish 'n chips in dallas ?
My hubby and I have tried tons around here and my 2 cents-
Old Monk (like others said, Idle Rich is the same folks so I'd assume the same) was prob the best from a local place but you can't pay me to fight for a table/ parking at that tiny place. I prefer their burger but too much hassle for ok food and beer.
Londoner in Addison was very underwhelming. Thats all. It was ok. Not good, not bad.
Trinity Hall is one of my favorite places in town but I don't like thier fish and chips. Everything else I've had there is great but they use a cornmeal crust on their fish and it kind of ruins it. Good tartar though.
Haven't tried the Porch, and interested to do so now. From all the places we've been though, I know its a sort-of chain (owned by the same people who do buffalo wild wings I think) but Sherlock's pub (in Addison. The one off 75 wasn't nearly as good) has fantastic fish and chips. The chips are ok, but the fish is huge and well battered. Plus its a great big dark bar to sit and drink and eat for a while.
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Trinity Hall
5321 E Mockingbird Ln Ste 250, Dallas, TX 75206
Noodle salad at Hana?
Heard of it but never bought it/ seen it at the store. Maybe I'll keep a closer eye out.
I suspected it was something simple but once before when I tried it with mayo thinned in milk it just didn't taste right. I'll hunt for Kewpie next time I'm at the store. Thanks for the idea :)
Noodle salad at Hana?
I know this is an oddly specific request, but does anyone know what type of noodle salad it is they make at Hana Uptown? I've googled everything and can't find much off of my memories of what it tastes like and no other sushi/Japanese restaurants make anything similar from what I've found.
For those who haven't had it, it's a noodle salad with spaghetti-like noodles in a mild creamy sauce served cold with thin slices of cucumber in it. If anyone has any clue what these noodles are (so I can find a similar recipe!) I'd be eternally grateful (pregnant woman away from home craving these silly noodles!)
*Your* secret to great apple pie?
Best apple pie I ever had (and tried to recreate) cooked the apples before baking. I'd never seen that before but it had a generous squeeze of lemon juice in it and the slices were all cooked til soft then added to the crust. The result was crazy good- super flavorful pie but the apple slices melted in your mouth.
Shun or Global knives? Which brand do you like?
I am well versed in knives and have fairly small female hands and I can tell you I LOVE the handle on my Global chefs knife. I tried Shun but it just didn't feel right in my hand to me. The shape and lightweight of the Global does it for me.
My giant handed husband is on rare occasion my stand in chopper and he loves it too (but I think its more because he knows its a "fancy" knife)
Help finding venue or large wedding reception
I think honestly, 30 per person for 400 people is low if you're looking for in the quarter (unless you don't have a sit down dinner) You'' be hard pressed to find many places in the quarter that can fit that many. Your best and cheapest bet would be the Warehouse district (potentially walkable from the quarter) they have tons of venues for parties and could do 400 or, as another said, Mardi Gras World but I do think that would be quite pricey.
Its not a restaurant but I know many have receptions at the aquarium which is in the quarter and could probably do 400.
Help finding venue or large wedding reception
Trust me, I had my out of town family stay in the quarter for our wedding and to get to the church uptown we had everyone take the streetcar. It was an absolute nightmare. It wasn't even a ton of people but half the cars just drove right by when they saw how many were waiting. What a mess. Especially for 400 people like they said? Don't put your guests through that hell lol.
Good grits in Dallas?
I thought of that because I have had decent shrimp and grits and things, but no one wants to be that person in Bolsa, Smoke or the like asking them for just a big order of grits. If you're there, you're going to order real food items off the menu. I see grits more as a side, which places serve, but none around here I've found serve well.
So far Dream Cafe is the only suggestion that serves a true side of grits with a positive vote from someone.
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Bolsa
614 W Davis St, Dallas, TX
Good grits in Dallas?
You're talking my language, CocoaNut! Oddly, I'd have to say that waffle house is the best I've found around here too, and that's not saying much.
Reuse frying oil?
I always always reuse til I can't anymore. If it smells funny, pitch it. Otherwise fry on. And yes, fish is the fastest way to make oil not last. I fry catfish when I can and anything you cook after could possibly catch a little fishy smell/taste.
Good grits in Dallas?
A coworker and I got to thinking the other day and could come up with no solution- has anyone found anywhere in Dallas that serves good, real (no made with water) grits. Not shrimp and grits or a meal, I mean a side of grits?
We scoured the net and even went to a few places and all of them hit you with a sloppy bowl of gummy grits made with water and no seasoning. Has anyone found true, buttery creamy southern grits in Dallas?
Port of Call and other questions
I agree about the drinking age, but when has that stopped anyone in New Orleans? Late 90s/early 2000's Port of Call was THE place most of the girls from my school went to get trashed on the weekends.
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Port of Call
838 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
Port of Call and other questions
Haven't been in ages. Just greasy burgers, which is great if that's what you're after. If you plan on oging at all in the evening, if its anytihng like it used to be when I was in high school, it was crazy popular spot for high schoolers to go drink, so you'd have to deal with that crowd.
